Gregory Pardlo, a teaching fellow in the undergraduate writing program and an MFA student himself, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in April for his second book of poems, Digest.
Three Columbian’s took home Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize this spring. Established in 2013, the $150,000 award recognizes outstanding achievement in literature. Teju Cole ’03GSAS won a fiction prize, and adjunct School of the Arts professors John Jeremiah Sullivan and Geoff Dyer won nonfiction prizes.
Claudia Rankine ’93SOA received the National Book Critics Circle poetry award for Citizen, the first work to be nominated in two categories — poetry and criticism.
